[Politics]

WSJ: Defending Imperial Nudity

Paul Krugman has a column of satire today--sort of. Very dark, cynical satire. Under the potentially amusing conceit that he found variant endings on the "Emperor's New Suit" story, he extends the metaphor:

The talk-show host Bill O'Reilly yelled, "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" at the little boy. Calling the boy a nut, he threatened to go to the boy's house and "surprise" him.

Fox News repeatedly played up possible finds of imperial clothing, then buried reports discrediting these stories. Months after the naked procession, a poll found that many of those getting most of their news from Fox believed that the emperor had in fact been clothed.

And so it goes until this ending: "And they all lived happily ever after - in the story. Here in reality, a large and growing number are being killed by roadside bombs. "

Well, it turns out he was prescient. Check out what the Wall Street Journal editorializes today on Harry Reid's interest in discovering whether Bush lied to get us into war:

The scandal here isn't what happened before the war. The scandal is that the same Democrats who saw the same intelligence that Mr. Bush saw, who drew the same conclusions, and who voted to go to war are now using the difficulties we've encountered in that conflict as an excuse to rewrite history. Are Republicans really going to let them get away with it?

It boggles the mind. But you do see from where Krugman's cynicism arises. Liberal press indeed.